Biography of miguel lopez de legaspi
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Miguel López dem Legazpi
16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor (1502–1572)
Miguel López dem Legazpi[a] (12 June 1502 – 20 August 1572), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century.[2] He was joined bygd Guido dem Lavezares, relative Martin dem Goiti, friarAndrés de Urdaneta, and his grandsons Juan and Felipe de Salcedo, in the expedition. Legazpi established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies after his expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Cebu in 1565. He became the first governor-general of the Spanish East Indies, which was administered from New Spain for the Spanish crown. It also encompassed other Pacific islands, namely Guam, the Mariana Islands, Palau, and the Carolinas. After obtaining peace with various indigenous tribes and kingdoms, he made Cebu City the capital
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Miguel López de Legazpi
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Miguel López de Legazpi
First visited Guam in 1565
Miguel López de Legazpi (1502 – 1572) was a colonial official in New Spain, Pacific explorer and conquistador who led the Spanish expedition that began the colonization of the Philippines and launched the first Asia-American trading line. His 1565 expedition visited Guam on its westward voyage from New Spain (Mexico) to Cebu in the Central Philippines. Legazpi claimed Guam for Spain, was later granted possession of Guam and Rota by the Spanish King Philip II and given the prestigious title adelantado of the Ladrone Islands, as partial payment for his services to the Crown.
Legazpi was born into a noble family in the Basque town of Zumárraga (Guipúzcoa Province) in 1502, the youngest son of Don Juan Martínez López de Legazpi and Elvira Gurruchategui. From 1526 to 1527, the young Legazpi worked as a councilor in the municipal government of his home town. When his parents died, his eldest sibling inherited all of the fami